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T(&v\ J. O. Lord, 

I^espected Sir: 
Having listened uuifh muoJi 
interest to your truly patriotic. 
discourse, on " QJie (Dead of the 
(Present ^ar/' and desiring; it 
for future perusal ; -we 7'dspeot- 
fully request a copy for pufcli- 
oation. 



II. IIOW-A_TM>, 

J. 15. SWEET, 

S. SMITH, 

ROBERT I>. BOYD, 

13. TAUNT. 

JOIIIV O. DESHLER, 

B. II. COZLEGROVIE, 

OSCAR COBB, 

S. LOCKWOOD, 

II. A. ERUVIi, 

E. It. PLIMPTON. 



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Zech, XII: 11, 12, v's. 
a Jbi that day there shall he a great mourning 
in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadddrimmon 

in the valley of MegidJon; and. the land shall 
mourn, every family apart 

The mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley 
of MegiddoD, referred to in the text, was the 
mourning of the Hebrews over the death of Kino- 
Josiah, slain in a battle with Pharaoh Necho in the 
valley and field which gave name to the conflict. 
The account of this great national lamentation may 
be found in the 2d book of Chronicle?, where it is 
written "and all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for 
Josiah; and Jeremiah lamented for Josiah; and all 
the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah 
in their lamentations to this day, and made there 
an ordinance in Israel; and behold they are written 
in the Lamentations." But we are not to suppose 
it was the death of the Kinar alone which occasion- 



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od this national lamentation. With him doubtless 
fell a great multitude of the people, so that almost 
every family was compelled to mourn apart for 
their dead, and hence Zechariah in the text refers 
to this great calamity, the remembrance of which, 
after the lapse of generations was yet fresh in the 
remembrance of the nation. 

We too have come at last to a "great mourning 
like that of the Hebrews at Hadadrimmon in the 
valley of M^ddon.'' After a long period of peace 
and unexampled prosperity, it hath pleased the 
Almighty to visit us with the terrible infliction of 
civil war, to plunge flu; nation in a mingled sea of 
blood and fire, to cast our families into a furnace of 
affliction seven times heated — may we come out as 
gold purified in the crucible, ma)' He who walked 
with the three vounir Hebrews, in the flames kin- 
died by the despot of Babylon, conduct the Repub- 
lic through the fiery ordeal, and establish anew the 
foundations ot order, liberty and law. 

"The dead of the present war," our theme to-day, 
is suggested by the sad returns we are begin- 
ning to receive from the battle field and the hospi- 
tal. The hand of (Jod is touching us at last, our 
young men are being brought back for burial, the 
pomp and brilliancy of the parades which charac- 
terized the commencement of the war, are giving 
place to the sad processions to the house appointed 
for all living, to the concourse of weeping relatives, 



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the muffled drum and the flag- draped in mourning, 
to the slow and solemn march of comrades in arms, 
who accompany the departed soldier to his last 
resting place, and fire the parting volley over his 
grave. Along all lines of travel by sea and land 
come the dead from the seat of war, and we may 
use the language of one of our own poets upon an- 
other occasion, but equally applicable to this: 

" Our cities vail their heads, 

As through their gates they pass, 

And the mournful voice of tolling bells 

Wails out upon the blast. 

And forth our noblest come 

To guard this sacred trust, 

And weeping women east their wreaths 

Upon the honored dust. 

They puss along their way 

In more than kingly state, 

And silent children press to gaze 

Upon the fallen great, 

While from the ramparts proud, 

Where their country's banners fly, 

The booming cannon speak their praise 

But they render no reply. 

There is sorrow on the wave 
As the coffined dead they bring, 
The passing ships their pennons furl 
Like an eagle's broken wing, 
And as the rippling streams 
Their precious burdens bear 
The murmuring rivers tell their grief* 
To every shrouded shore." 



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Who caii say bow long these sad processions are 
to last ? Who can tell the numbers who are yet to 
come from the held of war to repose with kindred 
dust in the cemeteries of our cities and villages ? 
May we not exclaim in view of the impending bat- 
tle at Richmond, 

Woe! woe! for the coming sorrow 
As hope shall give place to dismay, 
When mother and wife, to-morrow, 
Learn the fate of the battle to day. 

"The dead of the present war," who can number 
them ? Years must elapse before we can count 
them. The seeds of disease, planted in the fatigues 
of camp 'life, will bear fruit long after the war has 
closed, the wounds of the maimed soldiers will re- 
open, and death will demand his victims when the 
present rebellion shall have been buried out of 
sight, an abhorred remembrance throughout all gen- 
erations. War, pestilence and famine are the three 
chief executors of the divine judgments, but of these 
war is by far the most fearful. Where famine and 
the pestilence have slain their thousands, war has its 
tens of thousands of victims. The wan features and 
specter-like attenuation of men dying of famine, 
the livid marks of the plague upon its victims, have 
nothing in them to compare with the dead and 
wounded of the field of battle, the horrors of which 
are beyond the powers of description, and baffle 
alike the pencil and the pen. Consider for a mo- 



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ment the shock of contending armies, coining to- 
getker like opposing whirlwinds, the clang of arms, 
the roar of artillery, the rash of cavalry upon 
disorganized infantry, the shouts of charging squad- 
rons, the whizzing of bullets in their deadly mis- 
sion, the blast of trumpets, the long roll of the 
drum, the deadly charge of the bayonet, the cries 
of the wounded, the execrations of those beaten and 
flying. Then as the battle ceases to rage, and the 
winds disperse the smoke which rests upon the 
field, mark the heaps of the slain, the broken gun 
carriages, the dead and dying horses all mingled in 
wild confusion, with dying men gasping for water 
and counting their comrades, who lie still and cold 
by their side, as fortunate in escaping the agony of 
a protracted death. What scenes on earth can 
compare in horror with such a field of blood, with 
such a place of tears; where the raven waits for 
his horrible banquet, and the wild beast snuffing 
the tainted winds, hardly waits for the night, to 
prowl among the dead. Where now is the war 
horse "whose neck was clothed with thunder," 
who said among the trumpets ha! ha! amid the 
noise of the Captains and the shouting? Where 
now his gallant rider whose sword was flashing in 
the front of the battle like a sunbeam? Together, 
that noble steed and his rider lie calm and cold in 
the embrace of death, the broken sword is dim with 
blood, the fiery eye is sealed in a sleep that knows 



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no waking, and the wind that waves the broken 
plume of the warrior, and stirs the mane of the dead 
war horse, goes sighing mournfully on its way to 
rustle among the corn, and quiver among the leaves 
ot the forest, far from this scene of death. 

Looking at war from this point of view, consider- 
ing it in the aspect of a judgment of the Almighty, 
marking the ghastly spectacle of a stricken held, 
Ave might l>e led to neglect other aspects of the 
subject, to look upon war as always a crime, to feel 
that the dead slain in battle, or dying in the army 
hospitals, had perished miserably the victims of 
pride and ambition ; we might be led to exclaim 
"the paths of glory lead but to the grave, 1 ' and to 
say of our fallen friends and kindred what was in 
the <>ld time said of a great Captain in Israel slain 
by Joab, "died Abner as a fooldieth." It is to be 
feared that many amongst us at the present time 
do not look beyond the ensanguined field, the torn 
limbs and unburied corpses of the battle ground, 
that their vision is limited by the miseries of the 
crowded hospital, the tears of bereaved families, 
the loss of public and private wealth, and all the 
evils attendant upon a conflict spreading over so 
vast a territory, in which are engaged more than a 
million of men. To mch, the war has only the 
aspect of a divine judgment, to such, the dead of 
the war are victims and not martyrs, its evils with- 
out compensation, its losses without gain. There is 



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in this view of the dark side of the present con- 
flict a strange forgetfulness of the teachings, of the 
course of the divine providence and the testimony 
of the divine word. How were the foundations of 
Anglo Saxon liberty laid in the old world i By 
one of the bloodiest civil wars since the Christian 
Era, the war of the Commons of Great Britain witli 
the Stuarts, a war which arrayed, not opposing com- 
munities of the North and South, but household 
against household, brother against brother, father 
against sun. How were the liberties of the thirteen 
colonies of North America secured? By a conflict 
in the nature of a civil war, not merely because it 
was waged against the parent government, but be- 
cause it divided the colonists themselves, and tories 
and whigs from Massachusetts to South Carolina 
were arrayed against eacn other in arms. 

Have not a multitude of wars proved blessings 
in disguise? Is not the word of GoA full of proofs 
that He overrules the greatest apparent evils for 
good? For what does the Government wage the 
present war? Is it not to sustain its existence and 
authority assailed by traitors, false to their country, 
false to their oaths of allegiance, false to the cause 
of freedom and humanity \ For what have we sent 
our young men to the battle field to receive back 
the mortal remains oi' so many of them for burial? 
Is it not i\n- the life oi' the country, for our nation- 
ality, for the government and the laws established 



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by the fathers and founders of the Republic]? What 
do we resist at such amazing sacrifices of life and for- 
tuue ( Is it not an attempted revolution, backward 
to barbarism, a rebellion which seeks to give a small 
minority the right to rule over the vast majority, 
which aims to perpetuate and strengthen African 
slavery as the highest form of Christian civilization, 
which adopts as a fundamental principle the right of 
secession, nullifies all government and all authority, 
and which would if successful divide, this great Re- 
public into nearly forty warring sovereignties as im- 
becile, as incapable, as poverty stricken and as bel- 
ligerent as those unfortunate South American States 
where a condition of civil war has for the last thir- 
ty years been accepted as the normal and natural 
condition of society. 

This then is a defensive war for all that men 
hold dear, a war for our life as a nation, a war for 
our Constitution and laws, a war for the institutions 
received from Washington and his compatriots, for 
an inheritance which every consideration of re- 
ligion, patriotism and humanity binds us to transmit 
to the future generations which are to multiply on 
this vast continent,- a war to make personal liberty 
the rule and slavery the exception, a war against 
anarchy in the State and despotism in the house- 
hold, a war for a free church, free speech and free 
sail, a war against the assaults of a desperate oli- 
garchy, who having dishonored their own white race 



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on their own soil by reducing the common people j 
to a state of universal ignorance and indolence, \ 
seeks to make the system under which such a mis- 
erable result lias been obtained universal and not 
exceptional. JNo doubt the primary idea of the 
leaders of this great conspiracy was to establish a 
grand slave system over this Continent, in fact this 
has been publicly avowed, a conspiiacy not merely 
against the nation, but against humanity itself, a ta- 
king counsel against God and the gospel, a defiant 
assault upon His mission and purpose, who came to 
break every yoke, and let every captive go tree, a 
fulfillment in our day of the words of the second 
Psalm, where the Rulers and great men of the 
Earth are represented as taking -counsel together 
"against the Lord, and against his Anointed, saying 
let us break their bands and cast away their cords 
from us." Concerning whom it is written and even 
now fulfilled; "He that sitteth in the Heavens shall 
laugh ; the Lord shall have them in derision." 

In a just and necessary war like this, forced upon 
a peaceful people, and a mild and paternal govern- 
ment, those who fall in its defence are not victims 
but MARTYRS; their blood is shed in no vain and 
inconsequential conflict, they do not die to advance 
the views of ambitious and designing leaders, or to 
promote the territorial aggrandizement and increase 
the power of the nation, they die that the Republic 
may live, they fall that truth and liberty, order 



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and law, reeling beneath the blows of treason may 
rise again ; they pour out their blood like water, 
to cement anew the foundations of the government. 
All honor to the dead of the present war, future 
generations shall rise up and call them biesssed. 

The dead in the war for freedom in Great Britain 
have never been forgotten, and never shall be 
throughout the generations of mankind. It needs 
no Old Mortality to pa>s through the church yards 
of Scotland, to renew with his chisel the epitaphs 
on the grave stones of the dead who fell in battle 
for 'Christ's cross and crown' the stone may perish 
before the touch of time, but the names of the 
martyrs are graven on the heart of Scotland, never 
to be effaced. Hamden and Russell and Sydney 
can never be forgotten ; and though the English 
aristocracy refused to give the portrait of Cromwell 
a place among the memorials of the Rulers of Great 
Britain, they cannot make the world forget the 
great General who led the Puritans of England to 
victory, and who in courage and counsel exceeded 
the greatest of her kings. 

The memory of the dead who perished in our 
revolutionary struggle is yet fresh in the hearts of 
the American people, every battle field in that war 
is to us consecrated ground, every grave of every 
soldier who died for his country in that contest for 
freedom, is pointed out to our children ; the story 
of the gallant Warren, falling upon Bunker Hill, 



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and of the heroic Hale, giving himself freely to an ' 
ignominious death for the sake of .his country, will 
stir the souls and arouse the patriotism of every 
generation on this side of the Atlantic to the end of 
the world. 

The dead of the present war will fill as large a 
niche in the temple of fame as those of the revolu- 
tion. Time and the course of the divine Providence 
will justify this assertion. The clouds of prejudice 
arising from political partisanship and fanatical 
opinions, will gradually pass away. Even this an- 
tagonism of foreign nations, aroused by their real 
or supposed interest in the disruption of the gov- 
ernment,' and the destruction of the last experiment, 
upon a large scale, of republican institutions, must 
yield at length as the Nation rises from this calami- 
ty li&e a Giant from wine, and rears new bulwarks 
of freedom, out of the broken walls and scattered 
debris of this titanic rebellion already hastening to 
its fall. 

When we consider for a moment, the prodigious 
advance of the United States for the last half cen- 
tury in population and wealth, when we take into 
account the vast emigration to this country and its 
reactionary influence upon Europe, when we reflect 
that the American Republic is the shadow on the 
the wall, the spectre in the house, the skeleton in 
the closet of all the monarchies and aristocracies of 
Europe, when we see that not ivithoiit reason they 



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fear that the continued union, prosperity and pro- 
gress of the United States, will at last unsettle the 
foundations of all absolute governments, and all 
time honored abuses, we need not wonder at the 
bitter hostility, hardly concealed under the forms 
of diplomatic courtesy, 'which even the ruling pow- 
ers of the mother country have exhibited towards 
us since the beginning of this war. Nothing but 
the unlooked for energy of our government, nothing 
but the uprising of the people in the defence of 
their nationality, nothing but a wholesome dread of 
an army and navy, appearing like magic, rivalling, 
it not excelling, those of the greatest powers of Eu- 
rope, have kept back England and France from o- 
penly aiding the rebellion in its unhallowed attempt 
to divide and destroy the great Republic. 

Who can fail to see the hand of God in our deliv- 
erance from the armed interference of these power- 
ful kingdoms, an interference counted upon with the 
utmost confidence by the traitors, a support which 
they had every reason to expect, and without the 
promise of which they would hardly have dared to 
kindle the fires of revolt. Who can fail to adore 
that divine goodness and wisdom which has turned 
away from us this iminent peril. Have we not in 
this the proof that the Almighty designs to perfect 
our free institutions, to deliver us from the last 
reproach which rested upon us and rendered 
our example without its full effect among the na- 



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tions of the old world, who having long ago rejected 
the system of domestic slavery could not be made 
to understand how the only free government of 
the world should still maintain it. 

But as the purposes of the All Wise, already be- 
ginning to be vindicated in the overthrow of the 
rebellion, are made still clearer in the process of 
time, as religion, patriotism, freedom and truth are 
quickened into new life and power as a result of 
the War, as the conflict is at last seen by all men 
to have been waged, not merely upon local and pa- 
triotic grounds, but upon the broad basis of our 
common humanity, when it is acknowledged that 
this war was waged not to defend a nationality nor 
sustain a government only, but for the great prin- 
ciples in Church and State which underlie the pro- 
gress of our race and which are at length to give a 
free Gospel and a free Government to all mankind, 
then the dead of the present war shall be canon- 
ized in history, then it not before, the glories of 
the war of the revolution will pale before the ma- 
jesty of a conflict which was waged for the rights 
of man and the regeneration of the nations. 

The words of a great poet concerning the dead, 
fallen in battle, in the conflicts of England have a 
peculiar application to our dead in the present war : 

" There is a tear for nil who die, 
A mourner o'er Hie humblest grave, 
But nations sound the funeral cry 
And Triumph weeps above the brave. 



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A tomb is theirs on every^page, 

An epitaph on every tongue, 

The present hours, the future ag-e 

For them bewail, to them belong-. 

A theme to crowds that knew them not, 

Lamented by admiring lues, 

Who would not share their glorious lot, 

Who would not die the death they chose ?" 

The heroic achievements of the dead of the pre- 
sent war will fill the page of History, and can 
hardly lie glanced at within the limits of this dis- 
course. 

What a death was that of the lamented Lyon, 
falling at the head of his troops, in a desperate 
charge upon a vastly superior force. He knew that 
none but himself could rouse his men to the assault 
against such fearful odds, nothing but such a daring 
attack could check the advance of the enemy and 
he fully and deliberately, like a Paladin of old, gave 
his life to the object ; a mark for a thousand bul- 
lets lie fell knightly in the front of the battle ; and 
not his life alone, but his property he gave to his 
country, bequeathing to the government his estate ; 
what an instance of intense patriotism was this, 
hardly to be paralelled on the pages of history. 
What a glorious death was that of the crew of the 
Cumberland. Struck amid ship by the iron prow 
of the Merrimac, the ill-fated vessel staggers like a 
drunken man, her decks are slippery with blood, 
the dead, mangled out of the form of humanity, lie 



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thick around the heated guns, she is sinking rapidly, 
already the waters touch her deck, and she totters 
for the final plunge, but not a solitary survivor 
moves from his post, the fiery hail above, the rush- 
ing waves below, are alike unheeded. Steady and 
silent the gallant sailors stand by their guns, refus- 
ing to surrender, disdaining to lower the stars and 
stripes before the bastard banner of treason, firing 
upon their foes a last round as the muzzles of their 
cannon touch the water, and the majestic ship goes 
down beneath the waves with her gallant crew, her 
flag still flying at the mast head. Where in all the 
annals of naval warfare can there be found a cou- 
rage so desperate, a devotion so sublime, a death 
so glorious? Was there ever a grave made before 
over which the funeral volley was fired by the men 
who filled it ? They sank with their ship, ere the 
reverberating echoes of the last discharge of their 
cannon had ceased to sound alone: the neigdibormo; 
shore. In how many instances have our wounded 
soldiers stretched on the battle field, never to rise 
again, expressed their willingness to die in view of 
the success of our arms. "Comrades," said one of 
our gallant men mortally wounded in the great bat- 
tle of the Cumberland, "how goes the day?" "The 
enemy are beaten, and the fort is ours," was the 
reply. "Glory to God!" said he, "I die happy," 
and expired. 

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ticular instances of heroism. Volumes would not 
contain the sum of them. The war has roused a 
patriotism and developed a self-denial, magnanimity 
and courage well worth its cost. It will be expect 
ed of me especially to notice the dead of the present 
war from this city and its vicinity, and such circum- 
stances as I have been able to gather in regard to 
them. The list of our departed citizens and friends 
who have fallen in this war is as follows ; 

Cap>t. Q^homas jl. JEfvudd. 

Serg't. Egbert JEj. (ffl^allaoe, 

John Henry Gf-alligan, private. 

Orlando ftllen Jr., Coirvy. CDep'i. 

Cajpt. Henry (W^. Q'rozvbridge. 

O. ]\laster H. CD. QHllinghast . 
fldft. '^illiam Jjzollymore. 

Grarrett 2$. Loo'^tuood, private. 

Lieut Charles Severance. 

(Private ^Jing. 

Os7ner Eighme, private. 

Liezii. Gr. S. Kellogg. 

Lieut. (Daniel L. JPazcon. 
Jlcting Copt. John ^lilheson. 
It may be that this list is incomplete, but it is as 
nearly correct as I could make it. Generally it 
may be said that this catalogue comprises young 
men of our best families, of excellent character, and 
who went to the war from the purest patriotism. 
I should be glad to be able to give particular de- 



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tails of them all, and of the circumstances of each 
death, but of some of them I have learned nothing 
more than the facts I have stated. All of them 
have fallen in the service of their country, and shall 
be honored for this in our future annals. What I 
have been able to gather in regard to any named 
in this list of the dead I shall now proceed to state, 
particularly in regard to the members of this congre- 
gation whom I have known from their childhood. 

$ flrj't (Eflfccri j§. Wallace. 

Serg't Wallace, is said to have borne a high 
character, and his death is lamented by a large cir- 
cle of friends and relatives. Of the circumstances 
of his death I have learned no particulars. 

JonN Henry Galligan, was the son of one of 
our old and esteemed citizens, and died in the hos- 
pital on the 2Sth day of April last, aged 20 years. 
He is said to have borne an excellent character- 
His loss to his afflicted parents is irreparable. 

I have heard young Lock wood highly spoken of, 
but have been able to learn no particulars in his 
case, nor in that of Wing ; both I believe died in 
the Hospital, but none the less for their country and 
the laws, than if they had fallen in the battle-field. 
Of Osmer Eighme, I have learned only that his 
widowed mother is present, weeping for her dead. 



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Captain Budd, was an officer of the Navy 
of the United States, who was well known to 
our citizens and highly esteemed. He fell in Flo- 
rida by the hands of the enemy, and was buried 
here with suitable military honors. He was an 
officer of approved skill and courage, and from in- 
teresting letters published since his decease, it 
would appear that lie looked forward to his depar- 
ture as a probable event, and expressed a confidence 
in God and a preparation for death, winch must be 
an unspeakable consolation to his bereaved family. 

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Orlando Allen Jr., was connected with one of 
our oldest and most respected families. He is said 
to have been a young man of great promise. He 
was in the Quarter Master's Department at Cairo, 
and there died. I have no details of the particu- 
lars of his death. 

jpnti Sfowte gtvcvmti. 

Lieut. Severance, was the nephew and adopted 
son of Thomas Farnham, Esq., of this city. He was 
a graduate of Union College, and had a high stand- 
ing for ability and pcolarship, and was universally 
esteemed and regarded as a young- man of extraor- 
diuary merit. The glowing eulogy written by a 



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former teacher and published in the "Express," 
was a deserved tribute to this promising young man. 

fitojrt. §fennj W. ©Mrfm%c. 

Capt. Trowbridge was a son of Dr. Trowbridge, 
a well known citizen and formerly Mayor, of this city." 
A large circle of friends mourn his loss. 

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Adjt. William Bullymore, of the 49th Reg't, was 
a young man of uncommon promise ; to a fine sol- 
dierly person he added a cultivated intellect, having 
graduated at the military School at New Haven 
with the highest honors. He was universally be- 
loved, and in the various affecting memorials pos- 
sessed by his friends of the esteem in which he was 
held, his afflicted parents have a great consolation. 
The following extract from a letter from Quarter 
Master Tillinghast, who soon followed him to the 
grave, addressed to his parents, has peculiar inte- 
rest from the fact that the friend that pronounced 
the eulogium upon young Bullymore in a few days 
after followed him to the unseen world. Says Mr. 
T. : " I sympathise with you and your family in 
your great loss, which is no less a loss to the Forty 
Ninth. Officers and men all, with pride boasted of 
our Adjutant, as being superior to all in the service. 
He had no enemies in the Regiment, and it will be 



W* or* ^, 

Of Lieut. Kellogg, I have learned nothing, but 
that he fell on the field gallantly leading on his 
men. The following appears in one of' our city 
papers: "Corporal Richards was wounded just 
before Lieut. Kellogg fell. Lie speaks in enthusi- 
astic terms of the ; heroic conduct of the ill-fated 
Lieutenant. We should hardly say "ill-fated," of 
one who dies for his country, bravely fulling in bat- 
tle with his harness on. 



Lieut. Faxon, of the 36th Regiment, N. Y. Vol., 
I have known from his childhood. His parents 
have long been members of this Church; he was 
trained in the Sabbath School connected with this 
congregation. He was a young man of excellent 
character, remarkably affectionate in his disposition, 
a most dutiful son, the stay and hope of his pa- 



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a paralysing shock to them to hear of his death. 
His erect manly form is present to my sight, and 
his clear clarion voice still rings in my ears, and it 
will be long, long before I can realize that he has 
gone from you and from us forever." The hand 
that penned this beautiful eulogy is now palzied in 
death, and the amiable character of Quarter Mas- 
ter Tillinghast is seen in the words of consolation 
addressed to the bereaved family. 



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rents. He was universally beloved by his com- 
rades, singularly mild and gentle in bis deportment, 
but yet exhibiting the utmost gallautry on the field 
of battle. He was engaged in the recent bloody 
conflict of Seven Pines (or Fair Oaks,) before Rich- 
mond, and escaped a thousand bullets to die in the 
Hospital of over excitement and fatigue. His mortal 
remains were taken from this house to the house ap- 
pointed for all living, during the past week, and con- 
signed with military honors to the grave. Long will 
the memory of young Faxon, be green in the hearts 
of his numerous friends; long will his parents lament 
his loss,* with the mourning of David over Absolem, 
" O my son Absolem, would to God 1 had died for 
thee. O Absolem, my sou, my son.'' 

Prat iclitt tfQbffii. 

Lieutenant Wilkeson, acting Captain at the 
time of his death, was trained up in this congrega- 
tion. He was a grandson of the late Judge Wilke- 
son, for many years an eminent citizen of Western 
New York, whose lofty patriotism, iron will, and 
unflinching courage, seem to have been inherited by 
his descendents, for, if I mistake not, all his grand 
sons of sufficient age are engaged in the military 
or naval service of the country. If this venerable 
man who greatly resembled President Jackson in 
his person' and characteristics, is permitted to look 
upon the state of his native land in such a time as 



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this, bow will he rejoice over the devotion of his 
children and his children's children to the cause of 
their country. Young Wilkeson was a graduate of 
Union College, a finished scholar, a courteous gen- 
tleman, and a devout christian, who at one time 
looked forward to the work of the Gospel in the 
ministry of reconciliation. Obeying the impulses 
of patriotism, at the call of his country, he entered 
the army where he obtained at once a high posi- 
tion as a soldier and an officer. He was in the 
100th Regiment, and in the hottest of the battle in 
which Gen. Casey's Division was driven back by 
overwhelming numbers. God heard the prayer of 
our young friend, referred to in one of his letters ; 
that he might have unwavering courage in the bat- 
tle field. He fought like a lion, cheering on his 
men, and when quite in advance of them, fell by a 
mortal wound, which it is believed quickly termi- 
nated his sufferings. In regard to this Division the 
following testimony appears in the "N. Y. Times :" 

" The smoke of battle is clearing away, and it is 
becoming more and more evident that great injus- 
tice was done to Casey's Division. They fought 
nobly, desperately, and against fearful odds. Some 
few instances of bad conduct undoubtedly occurred, 
and those few have robbed many brave men of 
well-earned laurels. The fact that the whole rebel 
army could force them back only half a mile after 
three and a half hours' fighting, shows how stub- 



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born was their resistance. The division returns are 
eloquent enough of their glory. A staff officer of 
Gen. Keyes says : "The division lost in killed, 
wounded and missing 33 per cent, of its .effective 
strength." 

No eulogy that I could pronounce upon this es- 
timable young man could give such an impression 
of his ability, patriotism and piety, as an extract 
from a letter to his brother, also in the army, in 
regard to his motives in entering upon the service 
of his country. He says : '* I made up my mind 
after cool deliberation, that it was my duty to go ; 
one fights for a God-like principle ; it is the blessed 
human liberty which was the fruit of time, painfully 
produced from the struggles so long protracted, 
which gave birth to Protestant freedom, later so 
nobly preserved and re-asserted by our Fathers, 
and which now meets its old, old enemy despotism 
in its blackest and most treacherous form. It must 
not perish, for it is the only hope of our humanity, 
whose despairing eye is upon us, the only hope for 
the pure faith in God's truth, now threatened with 
a deadly eclipse. All this and more stands threat- 
ened should the slave despotism conquer us, for will 
not the human intellect and our moral natures (in 
this case) die without hope of resurrection. ISo, 
dear Brother, we can, if needs be, die for as pre- 
cious truths as ever led martyrs to a burning stake, 
and the man who does not seal his faith with his 



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blood deserves not to have enjoyed these blood 
bought favors of ours. We must all die soon, there 
is no fear in death for the man who is true to his 
best impulseses and never fails his country, for God 
loves freedom, truth, and free men, and fighting for 
these, you fight his battles. He himself will place 
the laurel chaplet on the faithful warrior's head ! 
"Trust in God and keep your powder dry." 
God bless you. We may meet on the bloody field, 
or perchance not till we rest from our labors. In 
either case all will be well." 

Parents, relatives, friends of the dead of the pre- 
sent War, is it not well, well with the dead, well 
with you who have given yoiw children and kin- 
dred to the cause of the country, of truth, of free- 
dom, and of God? May we not apostrophise our 
dead in the words of a poet : 

Warriors rest ! your toils arc ended, 
Life's last fearful strife is o'er, 
Clarion calls, with death notes blended, 
Shall distui b your ear no more. 
Peaceful is your dreamless slumber, 
Peaceful, but how cold and stern 
Ye have joined that silent number, 
In the land where none return. 
Warriors rest ! a dirge is knelling 
Solemnly from shore to shore, 
'Tis a nation's tribute, telling 
That her soldiers arei.no more. 
Ye, where Freedom's sons have striven, 
Firm and bold did foremost stand, 
Freely was your life blood given 
For your homes and father land. 



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Daniel E. Faxon, mentioned in the following 
notices, was a native of Buffalo, N. Y. He entered 
the service with the impression that it was a duty he 
owed his country. He believed from the beginning 
that it would be a war of years, and that all young 
men were needed, and not having previously given 
his attention to military subjects, he commenced 
the study and practice of the art of war. 

When his brother left, with the troops of the first 
call, he said to his father, "more troops will be wan- 
ted, there will be another call, and I intend to pre- 
pare myself that I may be ready.' He commenced 
the work in earnest, and in August following, was 
appointed a Lieutenant in the company command- 
ed by his brother in the 36th Regt. N. Y. Volun- 
teers. This Regiment was raised in the city of New 
York, and he entered it a stranger to most of the 
officers of the Regiment, but his gentlemanly deport- 
ment, prompt attention to duty, pleasant and agree- 



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able maimers, soon made him a general favorite, 
and his whole intercourse with them, as we learn 
from his letters was of the most agreeable kind. 

When the army of Gen. McClellan, went to the 
Peninsula, the Kegt. to which he was attached for- 
med a portion of that army. The fatigue, the trials, 
the hardships, exposure and suffering which they had 
to endure are well known ; he bore it in common 
with others, but here was brought to light, in 
its full force his self-sacrificing spirit. He thought 
he was stronger and more robust than his brother, 
and in his quiet way to relieve him, he took 
upon himself almost a double duty. His Captain 
says that frequently when he was ordered on expos- 
ed or fatiguing duty, while getting his men in readi- 
ness, lie would miss Daniel. Soon, and about the 
time to start and too late to make any change, he 
would make his appearance. He had been to Head- 
Quarters and procured an order substituting himself 
in his brothers place. Thus he not only performed 
his own duty, but relieved in a great measure his 
brother, and his own strict attention to duty, is 
shown by the remark of Lieut. Col. Huugerford, as 
lie bade his brother farewell when leaving for home 
with the body, "there goes one who never said it is 
not my turn." This was characteristic, iie was ever 
ready for any duty that devolved upon him. 

Another prominent trait in his character was his 
strict veracity aud truthfulness ; he set a great value 



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upon his word, so much so that his acquaintances were 
accustomed to say "well if Dan. says 'so, it is so," 
this alone, is a monument to his memory. 

Many incidents, and other sterling qualities of his 
quiet life could be enumerated, but enough, he has 
passed from us, his name is now registered on the 
great muster roll of patriot martyrs above. Among 
those who knew him well, he will long be remember- 
ed as one of their most agreeable companions — his 
parents will mourn him while life lasts — his brother 
will mourn one who ever manifested a brothers care 
and watchfulness, and the youth of this city will 
miss one who was ever a welcome and a safe com- 
panion. 

lie gave himself freely to his country — he per- 
formed his humble part in the great tragedy now 
enacting acceptably to those under whom he served, 
he merited and obtained their esteem and friend- 
ship, and when he ceased to be no more, sorrow en- 
tered the heart of all. 

He died at the Regimental Hospital on the battle- 
field of Fair Oaks (or Seven Pines) of typhoid fever, 
after a short but severe sickness of about ten days, 
aged twenty seven years, seven months and eleven 
days. He passed through the battle of Seven Pines 
in safety, although very much exposed during the 
whole engagement; but the responsibility, fatigue 
and previous exposure, proved to:j much for his 
constitution, and having escaped the rebel bullets, 



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although they fell like hail around him during that 
dreadful clay, he died as above stated, one of the 
thousands of martyrs on the altar of country and 
patriotism. The following are some of many no- 
tices of his death by those who knew and loved 
him well. 



From the Commercial Advertiser, June 20th. 1862. 

Death of Lieut. Daniel E. Faxon.— We are pained 
to learn of the death ot Lieutenant Daniel E. Faxon, 
of the 36th Regiment, N. Y. V.; Son of James 
Faxon of this city. The following telegrams were 
received by his father this morning: 

"Dan. can be with us but a few hours. He is fail- 
ing fast Elihu J. Faxon." 

"Daniel is dead. Elihu, starts with his body to- 
morrow. L. H. Briggs." 

Elihu J. Faxon, signed above, is a brother of de- 
ceased, and Captain of the company of which Dan- 
iel was Lieutenant. Both brothers passed through 
the battle of Fair Oaks safely, although exposed to 
the heaviest fire of the enemy, and letters had been 
received from both since that affair. The news of 
Daniels death is, therefore, very unexpected. He 
was twenty seven years of age, was born reared and 
educated in Buffalo, and served at printing in com- 
pany with his father, before receiving the appoint- 
ment of Lieutenant in his brothers company. 



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From the Morning Express, June '21st. 1862 

Death of Lieut. Daniel E. Faxon. — Mr. James 
Faxon of this city received a sorrowful Dispatch from 
Fair Oaks yesterday, informing him that his son 
Lieut. Daniel E. Faxon had just breathed his last in 
Hospital at that place. The deceased was Second 
Lieutenant in the company commanded by his bro- 
ther, Capt. Elihu J. Faxon 36th Regt. N. Y. V., Col. 
Innes. Both brothers were in the thickest of the 
battle of Fair Oaks and came out unharmed. Let- 
ters from both had been received since the battle and 
no apprehensions in regard to either existed when 
the news of Daniels death was received yesterday. 
The sickness which proved fatal to him must have 
been sudden and malignant. The remains of the 
deceased will be brought home immediately by his 
brother. 

Lieut, Faxon was widely known in Buffalo, and his 
circle of companionship among the } T oung men of 
the city was remarkably large. He had one of the 
kindliest and most pleasant dispositions we ever 
knew. It was impossible to meet him and not be at 
once charmed with the geniality of the smile that 
his face constantly wore. His death will do viol- 
ence to a great many of the warmest attachments 
known to friendship. 



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From the Commercial Adverticer, Jane 26, 1862. 

The Funeral op Lieut. Daniel E. Faxon. — The 
funeral of Lieut. Daniel E. Faxon took place from 
the residence of his parents yesterday afternoon. 
The services were held at the Central Presbyterian 
Church, by Rev. Dr. Lord, who spoke eloquently of 
the deceased as a man, a son, a friend and a soldier. 
The hearse moved from the church to the old bury- 
ing ground, where the body was deposited, under 
the escort of the Tigers, commanded by Lieut. 
Ward well. Hose Co. No. 1, and deputations from 
Eagle Hose Co. No. 2 and Neptune Hose 5, Mayor 
Fargo, Gen. Verplanck and Wm. B. Peck, Esq., 
marched with the procession, which was very large 
and imposing. We reproduce the names of the 
bearers and Guard of Honor. 

Bearers — Jno. B. Sage, William Cochrane, Jno. 
H. Sidway, I. R. Bray ton, H. B. Starkweather, Wm. 
W. Bristol, Ed. L. Marvin, and John Higgins. 

Guard of Honor — Capt. Bailey, 74th Regiment; 
Capt. Prince, 1st U. S. Cavalry; Capt. Mcllvane, 
U. S. A. ; Capt. Chester, U. 8. A. ; Lieut. Beck, U. S. 
A. and Lieut. Jas. II. Grav, of the Citizens Lkdit 
Guard. 



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A Tribute to the Memory of Lieut. Faxon. — 
The folloiving handsome tribute was submitted to 
Hie parents of Lieut. Daniel E. Faxon on the even- 
ing previous to the arrival of his remains in thi& 
city: 

To Mr. and Mrs. James Faxon: — The tribute 
rendered by societies to the memory of a departed 
associate is usually ephemeral and cold; but the 
sudden death of Lieut. Daniel E. Faxon, which has 
bereaved you of an affectionate and upright son, has 
also deprived this company of such a valued mem- 
ber, and its members of such a dear friend, that we 
cannot forbear to express to you in terms less for- 
mal and more earnest than those of preamble and 
resolutions, the regard in which he was held by us all. 

He became one of us nearly eight years ago, lone; 
after we had individually known and esteemed him; 
long after he had proved his worth to most of us by 
noble acts and earnest sayings, that were part of his 
daily life. He became increasedly endeared to us as 
a member of Taylor Hose Co., always efficient as a 
fireman, and frank and generous as a man. 

His reserved, but never ascitic manner, was a 
charm to us who knew him best, and his calm ener- 
gy was reliably at need. A will, slept beneath his 
smile that made him a brave fireman, a determined 



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friend, and a soldier "strong in duty and command." 
We do not presume, in thus enumerating these 
traits, that all of them were not too familiar to you 
to need recalling; we only desire to assure you that 
we, his old companions, appreciate them, if not as 
deeply, yet as truly as yourselves, and that they 
make his memoiy to us doubly dear. 

Even in the midst of a sorrow we cannot attempt 
to assuage, we know that you will rejoice with us, 
that your son and our friend was permitted to earn 
an honorably grave by battling for the cause he 
loved, and to which you yielded him a willing 
martyr. 

Permit us, in concluding this brief testimonial, to 
assure } 7 ou anew of our real sympathy in your af- 
fliction, which we share. We remain, 
Truly your friends, 

TAYLOR HOSE COMPANY. 



From, the Lake Shore Mirror, June '26, 186-. 

LiEut. Faxon. — Another noble and patriotic heart 
has ceased to beat — another in all the vigor of his 
youthful prime has laid his life upon the altar of 
his country. Lieut. Daniel E. Faxon, of the 36th 
Regt, N. Y. V. has fallen a victim to the rebellion, 
and his remains reached his late residence. in Buffalo, 
last Tuesday, and received the last sad rites yester- 
day. We have known and loved him for years, 



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generous and chivalric, with a form cast in the 
manliest mold, and a heart overflowing with noble 
impulses, he was the life and soul of a large circle 
of friends. When the war broke out he buckled on 
his sword, and leaving a flourishing ^ business, and 
a pleasant home, he rushed to the defence of the 
national honor. He has fallen nobly, and died as 
he would have wished to die. His memory will 
ever be honored. 



Tribute to the Late Lieut. Faxun: 



II FAD-QUARTERS 36th IiEGT. N. T. VOLS.} 

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Camp Before Eichmont; Va. ; June 19th 186: 

At a meeting of the officers of the Thirty-Sixth 
Regiment, N. Y.' V., convened for the purpose of 
paying a tribute of Respect to the memory of Lieuts. 
Georce W. Farr and Daniel E. Faxon, of the above 
regiment, who died of Typhoid Fever — The former 
at Fortress Monroe, on the 17th of May; the latter 
in camp, on the 19th of June; the following pream- 
ble and resolutions, were unanimously adopted: 

Whereas, In the death of our brother officers we 
are called upon to mourn the loss of those who have 
endeared themselves to us by their high social qual- 
ities, goodness of heart, uniform good conduct, and 
soldierly bearing; and that, although called from us 
in the early sphere of their usefulness, they have 



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passed away, regretted and esteemed by all who 
knew them; therefore, 

Resolved, that we tender our heartfelt sympathy 
to the bereaved families and relatives of the deceas- 
ed, which we sincerely feel, by the close connection 
that had been formed between us; and that, though 
stricken down by disease, their deaths are none the 
less glorious, when we remember the alacrity with 
which they responded to the call of their country ; 
and while thus testifying to their high moral worth, 
we humbly rely on the protecting hand of "Him who 
doeth all things well" to comfort those who are near 
and dear to them in this their hour of affliction. 

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent 
to the families of the deceased, and that they be 
published in the New York Herald, Buffalo Ex- 
press, and Buffalo Commercial Advertiser. 

Colonel CHARLES H. INNES, President, 
Captain E. M. QUACKENBOS, Company E. 
First Lieut, G.-H. MOORE, Company G. 
Second Lieut. JOHN MILES, Company K, 

Committee. 



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